Re: [AUCTeX] Long loading time

[Mosè Giordano]

2015-05-02 8:53 GMT+02:00 Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>:
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Reading more thoroughly `TeX-search-files-kpathsea' I see that
>> `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter' is set after getting the output of a
>> `kpsewhich' call, instead we need the separator before calling it.
>
> Exactly.
>
>> The kpathsea manual says [1] the separator is ";" on Windows, ":"
>> otherwise,
>
> That's what I've also read.

How about `path-separator'?

>> so we could set the default value of `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter'
>> looking at Emacs `system-type' variable, instead of the t (autodect),
>> what do you think?
>
> I think so, although I guess there has be a reason for this
> auto-detection at some point in time.

David you introduced `TeX-kpathsea-path-delimiter', could you please
explain why that autodetect mechanism is better than using
`path-separator'?  Are there notable corner cases (I don't know what
may happen when running Emacs under Cygwin, for one)?

Bye,
Mosè